snapsack

English

Etymology

Compare German Schnappsack and similar Northern Sami word.

Noun

snapsack (plural snapsacks)

  1. (archaic) A knapsack.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
      a soldier who had filled his snapsack

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